Delhi HC Upholds Life Imprisonment To 5 For Raping Danish Woman In 2014 [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court last week upheld the sentence of life imprisonment for five people convicted for raping a Danish woman in the capital in January, 2014.The Bench comprising Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice I.S. Mehta rejected the appeals filed by the convicts, who had been charged with robbing and gang-raping the woman at knifepoint after dragging her to a deserted place near the...

No Absolute Bar To Summon Aged Woman Before Enforcement Directorate: Madras HC Rejects Sr Adv Nalini Chidambaram’s Plea [Read Judgment]

More-so, this Court expect that the respected Senior Advocate like the writ petitioner, should not shy away from co-operating for an effective investigation of such offences committed under the provisions of the "PMLA", the court said.The Madras High Court dismissed plea of senior advocate Nalini Chidambaram, challenging summons to requiring her personal appearance before Enforcement...

Kathua Rape Case: Delhi HC Issues Notice To Google, Facebook, Twitter And YouTube For Revealing Victim's Name [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday impleaded Google, Facebook, Twitter, Bing and YouTube as Respondents in the Petition initiated by it against media houses which had disclosed the identity of the eight-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in Kathua.During the hearing, the Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar was informed that along with such...

Farmer Suicides Due To Bankruptcy Or Indebtedness: U’khand HC Asks Centre To Compensate Them, Take Supportive Measures [Read Judgment]

Moved by the grim scenario in which farmers in the state are committing suicide due to bankruptcy and indebtedness, the Uttarakhand High Court has asked the state government to prepare a scheme for payment of compensation to the bereaved families, create a corpus for waiving off their loans while also passing a series of directions for the state government and the Centre to ensure farmers...

Institute Quota Control System And Issue Tokens To Advocates Accessing Original Court Records: Bombay HC Directs Prothonotary And Senior Master [Read Order]

Justice GS Patel of the Bombay High Court has directed the Prothonotary and Senior Master to institute a quota control system for accessing original court records. They were also directed to issue tokens to advocates for visiting the testamentary department and accessing original court records.These directions came after advocate Manoj Kondekar, who was appearing for the petitioner in...

SC Lawyers Seek Extra-Ordinary Meeting Of SCBA To Protest Against Exclusion Of Justice KM Joseph

An extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has been sought for to pass a resolution against the Centre’s exclusion of Justice KM Joseph from elevation to the Supreme Court, ignoring the recommendations of the SC collegium.The proposed resolution expressed deep anguish at the non-inclusion of Justice KM Joseph and condemned the “selective approach of the...

Govt Can’t Reduce Payscale Of Employee Upon Downgrading Of Co-Operative Society Classification: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

“It is open for the Government fix the pay and allowances. But it cannot reduce such pay and allowances merely referring to the financial position of the society”. The Kerala High Court has held that the government cannot reduce the pay scale of an employee upon re-classification of co-operative society resulting in its downgrading. The court was dealing with a batch of writ petitions...

Erroneous Decision That Didn’t Give Effect To Statutory Prohibition Will Not Operate As Res Judicata: SC [Read Judgment]

The public policy contained in other statutory prohibitions, which need not necessarily go to jurisdiction of a court, must equally be given effect to, as otherwise special principles of law are fastened upon parties when special considerations relating to public policy mandate that this cannot be done, the court said.In Canara Bank vs NG Subbaraya Setty, the Supreme Court has observed that...

Mere Abduction Of Woman Doesn’t Attract Offence Under Section 366 IPC: SC [Read Judgment]

It must further be proved that the accused abducted the woman with the intent that she may be compelled, or knowing it to be likely that she will be compelled to marry any person or in order that she may be forced or seduced to illicit intercourse or knowing it to be likely that she will be forced or seduced to illicit intercourse, the Court said.The Supreme Court has reiterated that...

India Against Corruption Campaign: Delhi Court Discharges Arvind Kejriwal And 9 Others For Demonstrations Outside PM's House [Read Order]

A Delhi Court on Wednesday discharged Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and nine others from allegations of unlawful assembly and other offences during their protests in 2012. The others discharged in the case are Banwari Lal Sharma, Dalbir Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Mohan Singh, Balbir Singh, Jagmohan Gupta, Azad Kasana, Harish Singh Rawat and Anand Singh Bisht.The case concerns a demonstration...

10 Get Life Term For Lynching Man In Jharkhand

A Trial Court in Tenughat has sentenced 10 persons to life imprisonment in a case of mob lynching in Bokaro district of Jharkhand in 2017.A mob had accused victim Samsuddin Ansari of being a child lifter and had beaten him up brutally in Narra village under Chandrapura Thermal Power Station police station on April 4.  The victim had died during the course of treatment at Rajendra Institute...

Submission Of Nomination Papers Through WhatsApp? Yes, Calcutta HC Asks State EC To Accept It In WB Panchayat Polls [Read Order]

In an unprecedented move, the Calcutta High Court has asked the State Election Commission to treat as valid the nomination papers of nine candidates from Bhangore who had sent the same to the Block Development Officer via WhatsApp.Justice Subrata Talukdar, before passing the order, took note of the document dated 23rd April, 2018, from the Commissioner addressed to the District Magistrate...